Dr. Liang Ding
Assistant Professor of Business
Education Background
- Ph.D. in Finance, Kent State University, Kent, OH, 2010
- M.A. in Public Administration, Howard University, 2006
- M.S. in Industrial Economics, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, 2001
- B.E. in Industrial Foreign Trade, Nanchang University, 1998
Courses Taught
Graduate:
- MBA 600 Quantitative Methods
- MBA 630 Management Finance
Undergraduate:
- BUS 410 Financial Analysis
- BUS 411 Corporate Finance
Publications
- Liang Ding and Xiaoling Pu, 2011, "Market Linkage and Information Spillover: Evidence from Pre-crisis, Crisis, and Recovery Periods," Journal of Economics and Business, Forthcoming.
- Liang Ding, 2010, "U.S. and Asia Pacific Equity Marets Causality Test," International Journal of Business and Mangement, VOl. 5, No. 9, 38-45
- Liang Ding and Aiwu Zhao, 2009, “External Governance and Ownership Structure,” Journal of International Management Studies, Volume 4, Number 2, 126-131.
- Du, Xiaoxi, Ruoming Jin, Liang Ding, Victor Lee, and John H. Thornton Jr., 2009, “Migration Motif: A Spatial-Temporal Pattern Mining Approach for Financial Markets,” Proceedings of 15th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD). Page 1135-1144. (ISBN: 978-1-60558-495-9).
Presentations
- "Market Linkage and Information Spillover: Evidence from Pre-crisis, Crisis, and Recovery Periods," with Xiaoling Pu, 2011 Financial Management Association (FMA) Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, 2011.
- “Global Stock Market Linkage Stability: Evidence from Implied Volatility and Realized Volatility,” 2010 Financial Management Association (FMA) Annual Meeting, New York, New York, October, 2010.
- “Cross-market Linkage: Evidence in Stable and Turmoil Periods,” with Xiaoling Pu, Midwest Finance Association 59th Annual Meeting (2010), Las Vegas, NV, February, 2010.
- “The Pattern of Stock Splits,” 20th International Conference of the International Trade and Finance Association (2010), Las Vegas, NV, May, 2010.
- “U.S. and the Asia Pacific Equity Markets Causality Test,” 20th International Conference of the International Trade and Finance Association (2010), Las Vegas, NV, May, 2010.
- “Migration Motif: A Spatial-Temporal Pattern Mining Approach for Financial Markets,” with Xiaoxi Du, Ruoming Jin, Victor Lee, and John Thornton, 15th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Pairs, France, June 2009.
Contact Information

Liang Ding, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Business
Bus/Comm Bldg
Room 20
Phone: 610.790.1983
Fax: 610.796.8292
liang.ding@alvernia.edu

